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G D. EIGHMIE.

SHIRT.

(No Model.)

No. 452,178. Patented May 12, 1891.

35 1g GHQ ma e13 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE GEORGE D. EIGI-IMIE, OF NEWYORK, N. Y.

SHIRT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 452,178, dated May 12,1891.

Application filed February 4, 1891- Serial No. 380,176- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE D. EIGHMIE, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State ofNew York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shirts,of which the following is a specification, reference being had thereiutothe accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to an improvement in gentlemens dress-shirts havingopen-front bosoms; and it has for its object to stay the underlappingand overlapping folds of the bosom in such manner that tearing apart attheir lower ends will be prevented and the stay will be invisible on theouter surface of the overlapping fold.

The invention willfirst be described in connection with the accompanyingdrawings, and then pointed out in the claims.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of an openfront shirt-bosom, showing anumber of the plies of the overlapping fold separated and turned back,so as to show the stay engaging the backing alone. Fig.2 is a sectionalview taken on the line mof Fig.1, showing more clearly the stitching inengagement with the backing. Fig. 3 is a similar View showing thestitching in engagement with the backing and one of the interlinings.

Referring to the drawings, A designates the shirt-front, and B thebosom, of the wellknown open-front style.

Above the point 1, at which the underlapping fold 2 and the overlappingfold 3 of the bosom are joined to the shirt-body, is located the stay 4,which is made by a row or by rows of stitching 5, extending entirelythrough the underlapping fold 2 and through the backing 6 of theoverlapping fold, which stitching is arranged preferably at an acuteangle to the edges of the bosom, as shown.

Instead of the stitching extending only through the backing 6 of theouter fold, I may stitch through the backing and one of the interlinings7 of the outer fold, as shown in Fig. 3, but for all ordinary purposesstitching through the backing will be sufficient.

By means of the-stay described the bosom will be so strengthened thatall danger of tearing, as from stretching previous to being ironed, orfrom the iron itself, will be overcome.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A shirt having an open-front bosom whose underlapping and overlappingfolds are stayed by one or more rows of stitching above the point atwhich the lower ends of the folds are attached to the shirt-body, saidstitching passing through the underlapping fold and engaging with theoverlapping fold beneath its outer ply.

2. A shirt having an open-front bosom whose underlapping and overlappingfolds are stayed at an acute angle to their edges by one or more rows ofstitching above the point at which the lower ends of the folds areattached to the shirt-body, said stitching passing through theunderlappingfold and through the backing only of the overlapping fold.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE D. EIGl-IMIE.

Witnesses:

WM. HUNTER MYERS, R. M. ELLIOTT.

